Birthday Bash

My twins were turning 9 and after nearly a decade of birthday party planning, I drew a blank of something with novelty for them. Amy, Cara and Kim had recently done a mommy + me desert camping trip and when...

Having a kiddo with a birthday smack dab in the middle of holiday season (beginning of December) can make planning a birthday party daunting.  Some years it just doesn’t work out with schedules and all of the holiday chaos.  One...

When it came time to plan my daughter's 7th birthday, I considered just doing something easy with the family, but mom guilt quickly set in and after all of the event cancelations kids endured over the last 18+ months,...

*GIVEAWAY CLOSED* Cara and I had big plans to celebrate our birthdays this month and our one-year anniversary of running East Valley Moms with style, but per usual, we put ourselves on the back burner and holy moly, we nearly...

Celebrating a child's birthday is something that we all tend to lean into, over-spend and over-plan. We just want it to be their best day ever, right? But the reality is that we're the lucky ones who can accidentally spend a little...